Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.

Times have changed since a certain author was executed for murdering his publisher. They say that when the author was on the scaffold he said good-bye to the minister and to the reporters, and then he saw some publishers sitting in the front row below, and to them he did not say good-bye. He said instead, "I'll see you again."

Two is the beginning of the end.

Never is an awfully long time.

The fairies, as their custom, clapped their hands with delight over their cleverness, and they were so madly in love with the little house that they could not bear to think they had finished it.

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

There are, I dare say, many lovers who would never have been drawn to each other had they met for the first time, as, say, they met the second time.